Design of a 1-MHz high-efficiency high-power-density bidirectional GaN-Based CLLC converter for electric vehicles

Peiwen He; Ayan Mallik; Arun Sankar; Alireza Khaligh

doi:10.1109/TVT.2018.2881276

Design of a 1-MHz high-efficiency high-power-density bidirectional GaN-Based CLLC converter for electric vehicles

Peiwen He, Ayan Mallik, Arun Sankar, Alireza Khaligh

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Abstract

In this paper, a bidirectional CLLC converter operating at MHz-level switching frequency is proposed to achieve high power density and high efficiency. An optimized stacked printed circuit board winding based planar transformer with adjustable leakage inductance is modeled and designed for the proposed converter. It is enabled using gallium nitride devices to achieve fast switching with low switching losses. A detailed power loss model is established for the efficient thermal design of the converter. A proof-of-concept hardware of 3.3 kW, 400-450 V_DC input, 250-420 V_DC output CLLC converter with 1 MHz operating frequency is built and tested over a wide range of loading conditions. The power density of the system is 9.22 W/cm³ (151.1 W/in³) and the peak efficiency achieves over 97%.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	8534460
Pages (from-to)	213-223
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Volume	68
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2018.2881276
State	Published - Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bidirectional
CLLC
DC-DC conversion
MHz
electric vehicle
high power density
planar transformer

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Aerospace Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computer Networks and Communications
Automotive Engineering

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